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longer in their places on the Bench. Of the eminent 

 counsel, by whose advocacy and learning the cases were 

 successively presented in their most favourable light, 

 and the Courts were brought back to the almost for- 

 gotten view of the importance of common rights, Mr. 

 Manisty (afterwards Mr. Justice Manisty), Mr. Joshua 

 Williams, Mr. W. E. Fisher, and Mr. McClymont 

 have passed away.* Of the public-spirited men who 

 took upon themselves the burden of fighting against 

 the inclosures, Mr. Augustus Smith, Mr. Grurney Hoare, 

 Mr. Frederick Goldsmid, Mr. Hall of Coulsdon, Mr. 

 Hamilton Fletcher and Mr. Nisbet Robertson of Ban- 

 stead, Mr. William Minet of Dartford, and old Willin- 

 gale of Loughton, are no longer alive to celebrate the 

 final success. Enough, however, remain of the earlier 

 and later friends of the cause, to recollect the perilous 

 position of Commons at the commencement of the 

 movement, to appreciate the revolution which has been 

 effected in the relations of Lords of Manors to their 

 Commoners and to the public, and to rejoice in the 

 conclusion that never again in the future will it be 

 said with truth 



" Our fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, 

 And e'en the bare- worn common is denied." 



Goldsmith's "Deserted Village.' 1 '' 



* Lord Selborne, who rendered such great services in the earlier 

 cases, still happily survives, as does also Mr. P. H. Lawrence, to 

 whom the initiation of the movement was largely due, and who, when 

 called to the Bar, in 1876, was employed as Counsel in several of 

 the later cases. 



